Please see Figure 1 for a CiscoWorks Health and Utilization Monitor deployment scenario.

Figure 1. CiscoWorks HUM Deployment Scenario

CiscoWorks HUM polls the MIB variables in a device through SNMP and collects the data. The collected data is used to generate current and historical reports that help network administrators to analyze the utilization and availability levels of devices in the network. Reports can be emailed, saved, or printed for later reference.

CiscoWorks HUM is preintegrated with CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) 3.2 and distributed as part of the same media, under the LMS 3.2 single install framework. CiscoWorks HUM 1.2 is designed as an add-on product and fits well with the existing CiscoWorks LMS 3.2 applications. CiscoWorks HUM integrates with Cisco® Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for authorization and authentication services.

Figure 2 shows how CiscoWorks HUM is positioned within the CiscoWorks LMS architecture.

Figure 2. How CiscoWorks HUM Is Positioned within the CiscoWorks LMS Architecture

Features and Benefits

CiscoWorks HUM 1.2 provides compelling features that network administrators can use to better understand, monitor, and analyze the utilization and availability levels of devices in the network.

●Overlay graphs support for quick consumption/comparison of relative data points

●Nonhistorical threshold support for instant thresholding and notification

●Advanced Histo-GraphIt portlet with data export capability

●Live-GraphIt portlet for live troubleshooting network of performance issues

●Trap and syslog support

Table 1 outlines the features and benefits of CiscoWorks HUM 1.2.

Table 1.Features and Benefits

Feature

Benefit

Power over Ethernet monitoring

CiscoWorks HUM provides monitoring support for PoE-enabled Cisco devices. HUM provides comprehensive reporting on top of PoE statistics both at device and port levels. HUM also provides comprehensive dashboard views with top-N power consumers.

TrendWatch support

The CiscoWorks HUM TrendWatch utility allows users to analyze performance-level patterns historically. Using the TrendWatch utility, administrators can keep a watch on performance levels over time for specific parameters (for example, CPU utilization level greater than 70 percent, N times, over a period of N days).

Overlay graphs support

Helps network administrators to quickly consume and compare related data points on a single graph instead of two.

Nonhistorical thresholding support

Helps network administrators who are more interested in setting a large number of thresholds but don’t want to store the data points and still like to get notified upon threshold breaches.

Advanced Histo-GraphIt portlet

Enhancement to the Histo-GraphIt portlet that helps users to export graphed data points in the form of comma-separated values (CSVs)

Live-GraphIt portlet

Helps closer troubleshooting of problematic devices/interfaces by setting up real-time polling at an interval of 30 seconds or 45 seconds; provides live graphing of data points on the portal dashboard

Trap and syslog support

Users can configure HUM to send traps and syslogs upon threshold breaches and TrendWatch violations.

CiscoWorks LMS 3.2 integration

Network administrators can launch CiscoWorks HUM reports such as the device dashboard from other CiscoWorks LMS applications.

CiscoWorks HUM 1.2 can be installed in a bundle environment along with other CiscoWorks LMS 3.2 and LMS 3.1 applications or can be installed separately on top of CiscoWorks Common Services.

Components

CiscoWorks HUM adds its own configuration, reporting UIs, and portal view on top of existing CiscoWorks LMS 3.2 applications.

Performance

CiscoWorks HUM 1.2 supports up to 3000 devices and can poll 100,000 MIB objects. In a Windows environment, out of 100,000 MIB objects, 40,000 MIB objects can be polled in a 1-minute interval and 60,000 MIB objects can be polled in 5-minute or above intervals. In a Solaris environment, all the 100,000 objects can be polled only on 5-minute or above intervals.

System Requirements

Please refer to Table 3 for server requirements and Table 4 for client requirements in order to install CiscoWorks HUM 1.2.

CiscoWorks HUM supports only the U.S. English and Japanese versions of these operating systems.

Set the default locale to U.S.-English for the U.S.-English version and Japanese for the Japanese version. Installation might proceed in other locales, but there might be problems in the functionality of CiscoWorks HUM.

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For More Information

For more information about the CiscoWorks Health and Utilization Monitor application, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/hum, contact your local Cisco account representative, or send an email to the product marketing group at ask-hum-pm@cisco.com.